Hi Biff et al,

Does anyone know of a reliable free VPN Service?

I want to register on the Debian forums but they use damn IP Blocking filters and all the VPNs I've tried are also blacklisted.

Thanks, Michael.

Hi Biff et al,

It took me a while to finally settle on a distribution for the old Desktop computer (CPU: Pentium P4 2.66 GHz; RAM: 512 MB, 333MHz; 40 GB Hard Drive, 58 MB/s) I am renovating for my Landlord.

The critical factors, that finally swayed me to select wattOS R8 LXDE 32-bit, were the speed and low memory footprint of wattOS R8.

I couldn't appreciate how low the memory footprint was, though, until I actually installed it. Unlike other distros I had installed there was an actual, and significant, drop of 20 MB in the memory footprint measured when the Desktop had become active (77 MB). This is really good for a computer that only has 512 MB to work with. Every little bit helps. The computer gets to the Login prompt in 45 seconds whereas the previously installed Windows XP Professional SP3 was taking 52 seconds until the Desktop was stabilised enough to start using it.

I would like to know if there is an equally significant drop in the memory foot print when the MATE version is installed.

I am really hoping that 64-bit versions of R9 will support UEFI (Secure Boot disabled) so that I can try them on my Laptop.

Kudos and Thanks, Michael.

http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

I've read that page already.

What are you trying to say?

Thanks, Michael.

Maybe you have to 

It didn't work.

However, I made sure to save an image of the partition first.

I've since tried XFE which is really fast but I have now installed SpaceFM which features Tree panels for each pane and also integrates with the Widgets themes wheras XFE uses its own themes. SpaceFM is practically instantaneous to open.

Hi Biff et al,

The text displayed in the Update Manager Window is not 100% correct for the chosen Locale/Language.

The locale I am using, for the old PC I am setting up, is "es_PE.UTF-8 UTF-8".

Some of the text is in English and some is in Spanish. This is happening with the LXDE 32-bit version.

Is there a solution for this like an updated language database file?

Thanks, Michael.

https://wiki.debian.org/iPhone

I had already been through a lot that.

I got some improvement with the phone now being shown in PCManFM.

I installed gtkpod and GPixPod but it was the same story. Files can be copied onto the phone but the phone is not displaying them probably because the Photos.sqlite file needs to be updated is my guess.

Hasta luego, Michael.

This comes down to personal preferences, I always use apt in terminal when upgrading. Maybe you should learn her to use the method most suitable for the person that will give her support if/when things go bad.

Well, I'm still a Linux noob myself and I've been using Synaptic usually.

So, when I didn't see any Notification icon, for upgrades, in the Taskbar and I noticed the Menu item for Update Manager, I was thinking this may be the path to choose but when given the option of a Safe Upgrade, or not, I'm not sure, myself, what each path (Yes or No button) will do and which is REALLY the best option.

Thanks, Michael.

Hi Biff et al,

I want to do a test run of remastering wattOS R8 LXDE 32-bit.

I've found the following page and I was wondering if someone could confirm that I'm ok to roll with these instructions.

http://lxlinux.com/remastersys.html

According to the repositories, libglib2.0-0 (2.33.12+really2.32.4-5) is already installed. The latest version available is 2.42.0-2 at https://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libglib2.0-0/download.

So, should I skip step (iv)?

I'm also wondering what effect if any the installation of glib2.0_2.31.12-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz will have on the above libglib2.0-0 that is currently installed.

I'm not sure what step (vi) is about. Is this indicating, that after following step (v), that there should be a corresponding entry in the sources.list file?

Anything else, or any gotchas, that I should know about?

Thanks, Michael.